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Cindy Sherman: Imitation of Life

Philipp Kaiser · The Broad ; Munich ; London ; New York
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

This magnificent book encompasses the full scope of Cindy Sherman's career, with a special focus on the cinematic quality of her oeuvre. Known for slipping seamlessly behind the rotating masks of fairy tale characters, centerfold models, historical figures, and clowns, Cindy Sherman...
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Hand Drawn Lettering: Draw Paint Print

Mark Bergin · Barron'S
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

Unleash your creativity with this book that encourages readers to explore new ideas, nurture originality, and create unique forms of lettering. You'll find:32 pages of instructions, and another 96 pages of alphabet samples for practicePointers on techniques and the use of colorTips on materials...
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The First Signs: My Quest to Unlock the Mysteries of the World's Oldest Symbols

Genevieve Von Petzinger · Atria Books
Pages: 307
Format: Print book

"One of the most significant works on our evolutionary ancestry since Richard Leakey's paradigm-shattering Origins, The First Signs is the first-ever exploration of the little-known geometric images that accompany most cave art around the world-- the first indications of symbolic meaning,...
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The Art of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Josh Kushins · ABRAMS
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

This book is a visual chronicle of the Lucasfilm art department's creation of new worlds, unforgettable characters, and newly imagined droids, vehicles, and weapons for the first movie in the Star Wars Story series - Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. In the same format and style as Abrams'...
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Batman: A Celebration of the Classic TV Series

Robert Garcia · Titan
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Batman: A Celebration of the Classic TV Series is the definitive book for all fans of the popular Sixties show. Presented in a lavish hardcover edition, the book features classic images, rare stills, photography and production art and serves as the ultimate tribute for fans of the series.

Now...
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Showstoppers!: The Surprising Backstage Stories of Broadway's Most Remarkable Songs

Gerald Nachman · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 408
Format: Paperback

When Robert Preston shouted Ya got trouble in River City, when Carol Channing glided down a gilded staircase while waiters serenaded her with Hello, Dolly , when Barbra Streisand defied us to rain on her parade inFunny Girl, audiences were instantly enchanted. After such indelible moments,...
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Artists Under Hitler: Collaboration and Survival in Nazi Germany

Jonathan Petropoulos · Yale University Press; First Edition /First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

"What are we to make of those cultural figures, many with significant international reputations, who tried to find accommodation with the Nazi regime?" Jonathan Petropoulos asks in this exploration of some of the most acute moral questions of the Third Reich. In his nuanced analysis...
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Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story

Rick Bragg · Harper; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

New York Times BestsellerThe greatest Southern storyteller of our time, New York Times bestselling author Rick Bragg, tracks down the greatest rock and roller of all time, Jerry Lee Lewis - and gets his own story, from the source, for the very first time.A monumental figure on the American...
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Through Darkness to Light

Jeanine Michna-Bales · Princeton Architectural Press
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

They left in the middle of the night - often carrying little more than the knowledge to follow the North Star. Between 1830 and the end of the Civil War in 1865, an estimated one hundred thousand slaves became passengers on the Underground Railroad, a journey of untold hardship, in search...
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Scandinavian Home: A Comprehensive Guide to Mid Century Modern Scandinavian Designers

Elizabeth Wilhide · Quadrille Publishing
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

Scandinavian Modern was the most influential and enduring design movement of the 20th century, dominating the international scene in the 1950s and continuing to shape the way we live today. Architects and designers from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland, were responsible for a range...
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TV

Alan Sepinwall · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

Is The Wire better than Breaking Bad? Is Cheers better than Seinfeld? What's the best high school show ever made? Why did Moonlighting really fall apart? Was the Arrested Development Netflix season brilliant or terrible?

For twenty years-since...
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Landscape painting of the 19th century

Marco Valsecchi · New York Graphic Society; 1ST edition
Pages: 387
Format: Hardcover

55 color, 281 black and white illustrations. [From front jacket flap] From Constable's fresh look at nature to the climactic studies of Cezanne, the 19th century was a great age of landscape painting. This beautiful book surveys the century's remarkable range of landscape expression in the works...
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Creating Mandalas: How to Draw and Design Zendala Art

Deborah A. Pacé CZT · North Light Books
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

MASTER THE ART OF MAKING MANDALAS!The art of making mandalas and zendalas is less about drawing and more about slowing down and opening up to your inner creative flow. You do not have to be an artist. There is no need to know how to draw. All you need are some simple everyday tools and a little...
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Art of the Forger

Christopher Wright · Dodd
Pages: 160
Format: Book

Art Of The Forger, The, by Wright, Christopher
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So Many Roads: The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead

David Browne · Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover

Fifty years after they first came together and changed the sound of rock 'n' roll, the Grateful Dead remain one of rock's most beloved bands - a musical and cultural phenomenon that spans generations and paved the way for everything from the world of jam bands and the idea of independently...
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